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John Udvardy : Shifted the Rocks and Pi9cked His Way Among Clouds
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John Udvardy : Shifted the Rocks and Pi9cked His Way Among Clouds
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October 13 - November 23, 2011
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October 13 - November 23, 2011
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2011
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2011
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University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
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University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
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Lasse B. Antonsen
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Lasse B. Antonsen
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exhibition_note:
The University Art Gallery is pleased to present a selection of work by John Udvardy, twenty-four years after first exhibiting a selection of his work in 1987. The University Art Gallery is now located in the renovated, 1917, Star Store department store in downtown New Bedford, Massachusetts. The exhibition we feature now shows a much wider range of approaches by John Udvardy. The elegant, ornate, historicizing Star Store building provides an equally appropriate staging for his work, with its much wider range of themes of found and manufactured objects, suffused by layers of history.
exhibition_note_
The University Art Gallery is pleased to present a selection of work by John Udvardy, twenty-four years after first exhibiting a selection of his work in 1987. The University Art Gallery is now located in the renovated, 1917, Star Store department store in downtown New Bedford, Massachusetts. The exhibition we feature now shows a much wider range of approaches by John Udvardy. The elegant, ornate, historicizing Star Store building provides an equally appropriate staging for his work, with its much wider range of themes of found and manufactured objects, suffused by layers of history.
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sculpture
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sculpture
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http://www1.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery/past/2011/john_udvardy.cfm
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copyright notice:
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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artist name:
Udvardy, John
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Udvardy, John
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John Udvardy was born in Elyria, Ohio of Hungarian Ancestry. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He earned his MFA from Yale University. The Mary C. Page Scholarship allowed him to travel through Europe, Scandinavia, Spain and North Africa. He has worked at a variety of different jobs, including working in the steel mills of Lorain, Ohio with his father, as well as being a brakeman on the New Haven Railroad while he was a graduate student at Yale. During the late fifties while living in Greenwich Village, he worked in a snap factory in the Garment District of New York and in a spindle shop in Brooklyn. To maintain his studio and support himself while living in Boston, he worked as a sign painter there and in Cambridge, Mass. He was a specialist in an artillery battalion while serving in the Army. John Udvardy has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Yale University, Brown University and he was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. He is a full Professor and has taught Three Dimensional Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, as well as being the Chairman of the Foundation Studies Program and Director of the Summer Transfer Program for many years.
artist_biographical_note
John Udvardy was born in Elyria, Ohio of Hungarian Ancestry. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He earned his MFA from Yale University. The Mary C. Page Scholarship allowed him to travel through Europe, Scandinavia, Spain and North Africa. He has worked at a variety of different jobs, including working in the steel mills of Lorain, Ohio with his father, as well as being a brakeman on the New Haven Railroad while he was a graduate student at Yale. During the late fifties while living in Greenwich Village, he worked in a snap factory in the Garment District of New York and in a spindle shop in Brooklyn. To maintain his studio and support himself while living in Boston, he worked as a sign painter there and in Cambridge, Mass. He was a specialist in an artillery battalion while serving in the Army. John Udvardy has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Yale University, Brown University and he was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. He is a full Professor and has taught Three Dimensional Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, as well as being the Chairman of the Foundation Studies Program and Director of the Summer Transfer Program for many years.
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http://www.johnudvardy.com/
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work_title:
[ An installation fo John Udvardy's sculptural work]
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[ An installation fo John Udvardy's sculptural work]
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mixed media
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mixed media
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sculpture
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sculpture
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work_note:
In 1987, the Boston Globe art critic, Rebecca Nemser, wrote an essay on John Udvardy's work for the publication that accompanied the exhibition. This time we feature an extensive interview in which the artist explores his early, formative, years, and looks back at his career, influences, and ways of working. John Udvardy's story provides a glimpse into the extraordinary life of a first generation American of Hungarian descent. It is the story of how determination and hard work can blend and become illuminated by a desire to pursue the path of art, with its beauty and challenges. His life is a tale of how imagination and a social reality, that by now appear almost quaint, illuminate the American reality. The work of John Udvardy belongs within the framework of modernism. His imagination is rooted in Cubism, with its playful notions of multiple viewpoints, and in Collage with its everyday reality, as introduced by Picasso and Braque. That period in the history of art made room for playfulness, for conversation, for friendship, and for discussions over café tables. Reality was forever altered. A sculpture was no longer a sculpture, and a painting no longer a painting. Art and life had merged in ways that John Udvardy has continued to pursue. Once an object from real life entered into a dialog with the illusion created by the artist, profound new levels of stories and histories could merge. Nostalgia, dreams, longing, and desire, could now unfold in ways that had never happened before. That period in the history of art made room for playfulness, for conversation, for friendship, and for discussions over café tables. Reality was forever altered. A sculpture was no longer a sculpture, and a painting no longer a painting. Art and life had merged in ways that John Udvardy has continued to pursue. Once an object from real life entered into a dialog with the illusion created by the artist, profound new levels of stories and histories could merge. Nostalgia, dreams, longing, and desire, could now unfold in ways that had never happened before. In John Udvardy's work, we enter into an imaginative world that never lost sight of the wonder of the creative process and the wonder of discovery, which is the reason we, as an homage, feature Jacque Prevert's famous poem "To Paint a Bird's Portrait" in this catalog, in a recent translation by Jacqueline Michaud.
work_note
In 1987, the Boston Globe art critic, Rebecca Nemser, wrote an essay on John Udvardy's work for the publication that accompanied the exhibition. This time we feature an extensive interview in which the artist explores his early, formative, years, and looks back at his career, influences, and ways of working. John Udvardy's story provides a glimpse into the extraordinary life of a first generation American of Hungarian descent. It is the story of how determination and hard work can blend and become illuminated by a desire to pursue the path of art, with its beauty and challenges. His life is a tale of how imagination and a social reality, that by now appear almost quaint, illuminate the American reality. The work of John Udvardy belongs within the framework of modernism. His imagination is rooted in Cubism, with its playful notions of multiple viewpoints, and in Collage with its everyday reality, as introduced by Picasso and Braque. That period in the history of art made room for playfulness, for conversation, for friendship, and for discussions over café tables. Reality was forever altered. A sculpture was no longer a sculpture, and a painting no longer a painting. Art and life had merged in ways that John Udvardy has continued to pursue. Once an object from real life entered into a dialog with the illusion created by the artist, profound new levels of stories and histories could merge. Nostalgia, dreams, longing, and desire, could now unfold in ways that had never happened before. That period in the history of art made room for playfulness, for conversation, for friendship, and for discussions over café tables. Reality was forever altered. A sculpture was no longer a sculpture, and a painting no longer a painting. Art and life had merged in ways that John Udvardy has continued to pursue. Once an object from real life entered into a dialog with the illusion created by the artist, profound new levels of stories and histories could merge. Nostalgia, dreams, longing, and desire, could now unfold in ways that had never happened before. In John Udvardy's work, we enter into an imaginative world that never lost sight of the wonder of the creative process and the wonder of discovery, which is the reason we, as an homage, feature Jacque Prevert's famous poem "To Paint a Bird's Portrait" in this catalog, in a recent translation by Jacqueline Michaud.
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work_topic:
abstract
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abstract
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cubist
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work_reference:
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date_of_ record:
2012/05/30
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2012/05/30
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acywin
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acywin
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